Teenage girl has been posing as Wizkid for three years

Ifeoma Nelly(Has been posing as Wikzid on Facebook for three years)

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Fresh facts have emerged that the 19-year-old undergraduate, who had been posing as music star, Wizkid, defrauding several people, including foreigners outside of the shores of Nigeria, had been playing the game for three years.

According to some fans of Wizkid, Facebook accounts opened in the name of the music star were close to 12. They demanded to know the genuine of Wizkid.

The suspect, identified as Ifeoma Nelly, is a student of the Delta State University, studying Industrial Chemistry. She was arrested with the astute strategy of Wizkid’s manager, Mr. Sunday Are, policemen from Lagos State Police Command and an Australian.

She was arrested when she came to Lagos to collect part payment of 25,000 dollars from some Australians at a hotel in Lagos, so that Wizkid would come to Australian to pay.

Before the suspect used to collect payment via electronic, but because she was desperate to get her hands on the 25,000 dollars, she decided to brave meeting the Australian guy. She came in company of two friends; a lady and a guy.

She didn’t know that policemen had been planted in the hotel. When she walked into the hotel with her friends, thinking she was on the verge of meeting the Australian and sailing away 25,000 dollars, she walked into the waiting arms of policemen and Are.

Revealing how the suspect was arrested, Are, said that the lady said she had posing on Facebook and defrauding people for three years, using Wizkid.

When asked if she had other members assisting, the lady insisted that she was the only one running the show.

Are said: “She has collected money from different people. If you don’t have evidence against her, she would deny it. But if you show her evidence, she would tell you the truth. There was the case of the 53,000 dollars, which we had to refund to the owner. She confirmed that she was the one that collected it. There was another payment of 12, 500 dollars from Germany. The Germany people sent details of how they paid the money to her. She couldn’t deny it.”

Are said they had to start refunding money to different victims when the nefarious activities of the suspect became embarrassing.

The manager said: “We had been having problems with different clients because of this. We keep refunding all the money. It was an issue. When it became serious, we had to refund the money to victims. Some people will just go, write in papers that Wikzid disappointed them. They would say Wizkid and his manager collected money and didn’t come to perform. Meanwhile, we didn’t know about those shows.”

Are further explained that the lady, not only used Wizkid’s name to open the Facebook accounts, but also used Wizkid’s name to register the phone she was using.

“Whenever someone calls her or she calls someone, its Wizkid name that would show. True caller shows Wizkid. We need everybody to help us fight this. We’ve started working towards doing something about the fake accounts.”

Recounting how she was arrested, Are said he and Wizkid went to Zambia for a show. They were there when he received a call from some people in Australia.

The caller said he wanted to know if he was speaking with Sunday Are, Wizkid’s manager, Are said. The Australian said that he had been speaking with someone, pretending to be Are.

The Australian said that he had almost concluded negotiation for Wizkid to come to Australia to perform and was just about to pay 25,000 dollars part payment, when he heard that Wizkid was in Zambia.

The Australian said it was quite unlikely for Wizkid to be in Zambia, while his manager would be in Lagos.

The Australian source for Are’s phone number and called; the real Are picked.

Are said: “They said someone wanted to collect money from them in Lagos, Nigeria, for Wizkid to come and perform. They now found out that I was in Zambia.  They now wondered how possible it was for Wizkid’s manager to be in Zambia, while Wizkid was in Lagos. They managed to get my number and called me. I planned with them on how to make this arrest. I talked to them to convince the suspect to come and collect cash in a hotel in Lagos. That was how I managed to arrest her.

“She came along with two friends. They were two ladies and a guy. She looked like a guy. It took us three to four hours before we could believe she was a lady. She wore native clothes and barbed low cut, like she’s Sunday Are. She wore Rolex wrist watch. She bought clothes for the lady that came with her because that one said she didn’t have any clothes good enough to wear to come and collect the money.”

Are further said: “The arrest happened in a hotel in Lagos. I planted policemen inside the hotel room. The people gave the lady an Australian number, saying the Australian didn’t have a Nigerian number. Everything looked genuine. The show was to be in Australia, the phone number was an Australian number and the man she was speaking with, was a white man. But the man was actually in Australia, directing them to come to the hotel to collect cash. They entered the room and we arrested them.” 

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